File:USS Indianola blown up.jpg
Summary
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianola_(1862)" class="extiw" title="en:USS Indianola (1862)">USS Indianola</a>, an American Civil War river gunboat, blown up by confederates to avoid recapture after a dummy Union warship appears. Original caption: "Line engraving after a sketch by Theodore R. Davis, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the 25 February 1863 operation in which a dummy ironclad (left) was floated down the Mississippi River by the U.S. Navy, causing the Confederates to destroy the captured ironclad USS Indianola. CSS Queen of the West is depicted at the right."
Ship was sunk at the head of Palmyra island. Then adjacent to the plantation of Jefferson Davis, and "New Carthage". Shown on this map <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MissRive2Col-USCS-1864">[1]</a>. Current day view of present day "Davis Island" is shown <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://members.cox.net/wplong1/images/Copy%20(2)%20of%20USGS_C253BB0924BCAC30_1.jpg">here</a>.
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| current | 02:26, 17 January 2017 | | 736 × 470 (121 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianola_(1862)" class="extiw" title="en:USS Indianola (1862)">USS Indianola</a>, an American Civil War river gunboat, blown up by confederates to avoid recapture after a dummy Union warship appears. Original caption: "Line engraving after a sketch by Theodore R. Davis, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the 25 February 1863 operation in which a dummy ironclad (left) was floated down the Mississippi River by the U.S. Navy, causing the Confederates to destroy the captured ironclad USS Indianola. CSS Queen of the West is depicted at the right."<br> Ship was sunk at the head of Palmyra island. Then adjacent to the plantation of Jefferson Davis, and "New Carthage". Shown on this map <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MissRive2Col-USCS-1864">[1]</a>. Current day view of present day "Davis Island" is shown <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://members.cox.net/wplong1/images/Copy%20(2)%20of%20USGS_C253BB0924BCAC30_1.jpg">here</a>. |
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